“Sultan bahu none as hazrat sultan bahu born in Punjab Pakistan was sufi sent and sufi poet his poetry is very famous… — sultan bahu Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Being also a poet, he put Francis Bacon into doggerel: You glorify Nature and meditate on her; Why not domesticate her and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The art has to have a life of its own and not merely illustrate. I've always felt a great illustration can make… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years… — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Eight o'clock, no later, You light the lamps, The big one by the large window, The small one on your desk, They… — Mary Oliver Rotman Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“Within Young Leaves Wrapped within young leaves: the sound of water. —SOSEKI This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament:… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I want to marry a man who has read the entire collected works of Shakespeare," Daisy said. "Someone quiet and romantic- better… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In English sometimes they call a mentally disabled person a retard, and there is a kind of accidental poetry in naming a… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“Each night they left the balcony door open so they could hear the surf lapping against the sand. And, once when the… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough. Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Been lookin for that ride or die for years, the one who I share a smile with and even shed tears, the… — Shayne Martin Copy Share Image
“The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
![“She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make…” quote by Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3f/edward-hirsch-1614_carols_she-carol-parsinan-somehow-read-my-poems_3055277.jpg)
